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Indian Railways notified that many graduate-level posts in the Non-Technical Popular Categories through the Centralised Employment Notification issued by the Railway Recruitment Boards, covering four categories of posts across commercial services, train operations, accounts and administration.

Under the narcotics law the punishment turns on whether the quantity seized is small, intermediate or commercial, and for methamphetamine the commercial mark is fixed at 50 grams.

Methamphetamine is treated in India as a psychotropic substance and is regulated by this law, under which possessing, making, selling, buying, transporting, importing or exporting the drug without authority is an offence.

Acting on intelligence, officers of that unit stopped a passenger travelling by train from Delhi to Bengaluru and recovered 5.753 kg of suspected methamphetamine from the trolley bag being carried.

The Mangalore Regional Unit of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence intercepted an Indian national travelling by train from Delhi to Bengaluru and recovered three packets of a white crystalline substance of that weight, suspected to be methamphetamine, from the passenger’s trolley bag.

The press note on the gold seizures in the eastern region was issued by that ministry, under which the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence works as the apex agency for intelligence-led action against smuggling and commercial fraud in customs matters.

DRI teams intercepted passengers coming off trains at Malda Town railway station and New Jalpaiguri railway station and seized about 1 kg of foreign-origin gold worth nearly Rs 1.5 crore, held in the form of bangles and bars.

A four-wheeler carrying four persons was stopped there as it travelled from Banpur, near the Bangladesh border, towards Kolkata.

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence seized that much foreign-origin gold, valued at more than Rs 11.50 crore, in intelligence-led operations run on 8 and 9 October 2026 in the eastern region, and six persons were arrested.

It follows the seed through its life cycle across generations by automating the supply chain from seed production to certification and sale, so that farmers receive seed of verified quality.

Under the Mission they may buy the whole quantity of Tur, Masur and Urad offered by willing and registered farmers for four years, from 2025-26 to 2028-29, which gives growers an assured market at the Minimum Support Price.

The Mission sets this as the production goal for 2030-31, to be reached with yield of 1,130 kg per hectare and a sown area taken up to 310 lakh hectares.

The Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses was sanctioned with this allocation for the six years from 2025-26 to 2030-31, and the money pays for seed kits, certified seed, cluster-based cultivation in 489 districts and a thousand dal mills.

Oussudu Lake lies a few kilometres west of the territorial capital, astride the boundary between the Puducherry region and Tamil Nadu.

Garadi is danced by men dressed as the vanaras, the monkey warriors of the Ramayana, who move in a circle to drums and anklets through the night at temple festivals; it is the folk form most closely tied to the territory.

Parliament passed the Pondicherry (Alteration of Name) Act in 2006, replacing the anglicised Pondicherry with the Tamil original Puducherry, which means the new village or new town.

When the French East India Company obtained the fishing village of Pondicherry in 1674, Francois Martin was placed in charge and is counted as its first governor.

The Puducherry Legislative Assembly, constituted under the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963, has thirty directly elected seats. The Central Government may in addition nominate up to three members, so the house can reach a strength of thirty-three.

Arikamedu stands on the bank of the Ariyankuppam river a few kilometres south of the territorial capital. Excavations there have produced Roman amphorae, glassware, rouletted ware and beads, and the site is generally identified with the port of Poduke listed in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.

All four regions of Puducherry, including Mahe in Kerala and Yanam in Andhra Pradesh, come under the Madras High Court, which sits at Chennai.